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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Yeovilton like this:
YEOVILTON, a parish, with a village and two hamlets, in Yeovil district, Somerset; 1½ mile E of Ilchester, and 3¾ W of Marston r. station. Post town, Ilchester, under Taunton. Acres, 1,753. Real property, £3,260. Pop., 342. Houses, 60. The manor was known to the Saxons as Geviltone; belonged, at the Norman conquest, to W. du Ewe; passed to W. de Botreaux and others; and belongs now to G. D. W. Digby, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £445.* Patron, the Bishop of B. and W. The church is later English. Charities, £7.
Yeovilton is now part of SOMERSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SOMERSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Yeovilton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Yeovilton in Somerset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13442
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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